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A demonstrator clashes with the riot police during a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on April 20, 2017 (AFP Photo/Juan BARRETO)/ Caracas (AFP) - The number of people killed in three weeks of street protests against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro soared to 20 on Friday after one of the deadliest nights of unrest in Caracas. Eleven people died -- some reportedly electrocuted while looting a bakery, and others shot -- and six people were wounded in riots in the capital's southwestern district El Valle, the ...

Apr 21, 2017

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Marchers in Caracas were forced back by lines of soldiers and police deployed to contain what the opposition vowed would be the "mother of all protests" (AFP Photo/JUAN BARRETO )/ Caracas (AFP) - Opponents of the Venezuelan government vowed fresh huge protests on Thursday, upping the ante in ...

government protesters march with a banner that reads in Spanish "Freedom without fear" along a highway in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, April 19, 2017. Tens of thousands of opponents of President Nicolas Maduro flooded the streets of Caracas in what's been dubbed the "mother of all marches" ...

CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) - Two Venezuelan students died on Wednesday after being shot during protests against unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro, increasing turmoil in the volatile nation amid a devastating economic crisis. Opposition supporters protested in Caracas and ...

Marchers in Caracas were forced back by lines of soldiers and police deployed to contain what the opposition vowed would be the "mother of all protests" (AFP Photo/JUAN BARRETO )/ Caracas (AFP) - A teenage boy and a woman died after being shot Wednesday during massive protests in Venezuela ...

A demonstrator gestures while facing riot police during a rally against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, Venezuela, April 20, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins/ CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition renewed nationwide protests on Thursday to pressure the government of ...

government slogans during a protest in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, April 20, 2017. Venezuela's opposition looks to keep up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, taking to the streets again one day after three people were killed and hundreds arrested in the biggest anti-government ...

nothing politicians who refuse to act on gun control. In his first new “Late Show” episode since last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school, Colbert said it’s clear that kids have now become leading voices on the issue of gun control and that “the adults aren’t cutting it anymore.” “I ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has been given a three-month reprieve by a global watchdog over a U.S.-led motion to put the South Asian country on a terrorist financing watchlist, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said late on Tuesday. Pakistan has been scrambling in recent months to ...

The Trump administration must keep threatening to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal unless the EU agrees to help fix the flaws of the deal, according to a leading Iran expert, or the EU will not confront Iran about changes to the deal. On Tuesday, Emily Landau, INSS Arms Control Director, ...

Archaeologists who have been exploring the world's largest underwater cave -- recently discovered in Mexico -- presented their findings Monday, including fossils of giant sloths and an elaborate shrine to the Mayan god of commerce. Researchers discovered last month that two large networks of ...

Several Western powers are calling on the United Nations Security Council to punish Iran for giving Houthi rebels in Yemen access to Iranian missiles. Britain, France and the United States have urged the UN Security Council to take action. The three nations have also indicated that sanctions ...

A survivor of the Columbine High School shooting has said the reaction of the Parkland victims has renewed her hope of meaningful action finally happening on gun control. Anne Marie Hochhalter said social media had given survivors of mass shootings a platform to call for change that the ...

Deputy Lisa Jansen displays photos of weapons and ammo at a news conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Authorities say they've thwarted a student's plot for a mass shooting at a Southern California high school. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday that a ...

15s for sale on Feb. 15, 2018 in Orem, Utah. (George Frey/Getty Images)/ has found the highest support it’s ever surveyed for universal background checks for firearms purchases, with nearly 100 percent of those polled supporting the gun control measure. According to the findings released ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses American-Jewish leaders at a conference in Jerusalem on February 21, 2018 (AFP Photo/Thomas COEX)/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that intelligence provided by his country foiled a plot by the Islamic State group to ...

100 Parkland students travelled 450 miles to the state capital while others at dozens of high schools walked out in support of #NeverAgain/ Student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting confronted Florida’s lawmakers on Wednesday to demand gun control reforms, as ...